Your Blogging Staff

Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

Waaah! I sat in traffic for 2 hours from Torrance to Glendora to get to the Sam's Club...and they had left already! Another woman and her child and I moped about morosely until one of the workers was forced to go in the back and fake their signatures on some books so we would leave. Snif.

Addendum - Dave and Ridley signed 2 copies of "Starcatchers", one copy of "Is not making this up", and a poster for me.
The wifester is having a fantasy of my son Ryan on The Antiques Roadshow in 50 years..."Since you have the whole package, the picture and comments from the blog, the book, the poster, the whole package is worth...50 million dollars!"

They weren't near this festive on Thurs night when I saw them at Barnes & Noble at the Grove. I brought my girls with me & picked up a copy of the book and they were just sitting quietly behind a table signing the books. No pirates :(

Nice to see the wifester is still in the glow of meeting the authors. Did she wait until you were out of earshot before she began contemplating the sales value of the items? *joking! bet Dave would give the nod on the $50 mil*

Mad, Mike and I had dinner in a very fashionable Coco's afterwards. Am glad to report they are both relatively normal (begging the question of my judgement in these matters, of course!)

Mike strikes me as to humble to mention this himself, so I have to let you all know that Dave's inscription in Mike's book seems to anoint him to Rockstar status, I think it referred to him as a "Blog God" (Mike, what was the exact wording again?).

Dave actually signed my book as "blog god" which might BAGNFARB. It was way cool meeting bloglits! I only barely made it in time to catch Dave and Ridley due to traffic. Whew! Thanks again Dave and Ridley! Great book so far, I'm already on Chapter 12.

I live up here in Soo Saint Sibera.. so no Dave here either.. WAHH! Nothing happens up here. Dave will be in Detroit next month with the Remianders (or whatever its called) but I have no money. Damn soon to be ex spouse!

Just because I think it would be a cool topic, but obviously I can't post to the board... how did you discover Dave's Humor? Me, when I was a sophmore in HS we had an assignment where we had to find a article about computers/tech. and turn it in for a grade. I think we had to write a report. Well, Dave Barry is also printed in a News Paper in Layton, UT. So, I saw a article with some computer sounding headline, clipped it, and wrote a paragraph from something I skimmed out of the article. To show how much the teacher didn't pay attention.. I got a good grade on it. After I got it back I actually read the article, laughed my butt off, and thought, "this is what I turned in?!" So, I have read Dave Barry since then. Defiantly the funniest colomnist out there!!

About 16 years ago, Dave's article appeared in the Sunday Parade magazine in the Houston Chronicle. When hubby and I went back to college, I had to ask the library to stop throwing away Parade just so I get get my weekly Dave fix. I made photocopies and gave them to my instructors, and they became converts. These days, I send the URL to many who live in small towns and their paper doesn't (or won't) carry his article.

Got to meet Dave two years ago when he was in Arlington at a luncheon/library event. I took the day off to attend. The best part was when the band invited (coerced) him into playing guitar and singing The Tupperware Song. He signed my book "Web Goddess".

Thanks everyone I will get the real pics up on the Ysite soon. Mike is very tall and funny Jamester is charming and wonderful as is his family. He has the cutest kids ever! And yes Peri little Jamester and his sword defintiely stole the show.

Ok, I am a long-time blog-reader (since 2 weeks before they switched to the new format), but first time actual blogger - but I had to blog to let you guys know that I will be at the Tattered Cover in Denver when Dave and Ridley come - I don't have any coconut bras, though :(

teachernb8 you had the red bandana! Thanks for saving the guys. Their publicist rushed them in and out really fast. It was sad not to get to hear them read. You should have spoken up as a blogger and got your (not your) picture taken with us. :-)

There's no good way to tell a story about becoming a Dave fan in NYC. "small town", my a** - we've got millions of people, dozens of daily papers, including "the newspaper of record" which claims "all the news that's fit to print" - but to read Dave I have to read the International Herald Tribune or see miami.com . Not many do; I feel kinda lonely.

I showed up at Borders Books, Broadway & Wall St, at lunchtime ten days ago. Supposedly Dave had just been there, but who ever gets out for lunch before 1:30 in the Apple? No sign of any pirates; just the usual mob into which any Dave Booksigning attenders had obviously vanished within seconds. (The only worse imaginable fate is to disappear into the jam of traffic that attempts a roundtrip to Long Island - by car!! - in afternoon hours. Luckily, no one would be insane enough to attempt that.)

A few signed books were still on sale. I bought one happily. Then it disappeared from my living room overnight. Turns out it caught my 11-year-old's eye, and then she "couldn't put it down" for two days til she had finished it all. (Would've been one day, but they don't let you read Ridley or Dave in Social Studies.) "Cool book. Where'd you get it?" And the book itself still looks new, too.

So all ended better than I could have expected.

I'm just glad I live in a place, weird as it may be, where (a) I can still sort of try to keep up with Dave, and (b) Dave's stuff can still be cool.